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Message-ID: <CAJHCu1+V+khxvzhQdG=mo960b5ayiQcSaoMnm9A__51JdWkdig@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 12:36:36 +0200 From: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@...il.com> To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> Cc: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: drop some VLAs in switch.c 2018-03-13 21:06 GMT+01:00 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>: > On 03/13/2018 12:58 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote: >> Hi Salvatore, >> >> Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@...il.com> writes: >> >>> dsa_switch's num_ports is currently fixed to DSA_MAX_PORTS. So we avoid >>> 2 VLAs[1] by using DSA_MAX_PORTS instead of ds->num_ports. >>> >>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@...il.com> >> >> NAK. >> >> We are in the process to remove hardcoded limits such as DSA_MAX_PORTS >> and DSA_MAX_SWITCHES, so we have to stick with ds->num_ports. > > Then this means that we need to allocate a bitmap from the heap, which > sounds a bit superfluous and could theoretically fail... not sure which > way is better, but bumping the size to DSA_MAX_PORTS definitively does > help people working on enabling -Wvla. Hi Florian, Should I consider this patch still NAKed or not? Should I resend the patch with some modifications? Thank you, Salvatore
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